Useful websites for English

BBC Skillswise is a free-to-access website for adult numeracy and literacy tutors and students, with printable worksheets and factsheets and online games, videos and quizzes.

BBC Bitesize is a free-to-access website for students revising for GCSEs, standard grades, AS levels, SATs and KS3 exams.

ESOL UK is an educational website for those wanting to develop their English language and learn about different subject specific topics. Many of these materials were developed with ESOL tutors at Leeds City College.

ESOL Nexus is a free website from the British Council to help ESOL learners to improve their English with videos, listening activities, texts and grammar exercises.

Drama Online hosts a vast collection of plays, from epics to monologue, ensembles and one-person plays, comedies to tragedies, historical and contemporary, as well as the political and personal. From outside College, login with your College computer ID and password.

Digital Theatre Plus offers streamed films of leading British theatre productions. Each one is supported by additional content, including interviews with the creative and production teams and written study guides. From outside College, select 'Leeds City College' from the drop-down menu, and login with your College computer ID and password.

The Reading Agency is a charity whose mission is to inspire more people to read more, encourage them to share their enjoyment of reading and celebrate the difference that reading makes to all our lives.

Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Their mission is to help people find and share books they love.